From: Reed Konsler (konslerr@mail.weston.org)
Date: Fri 16 May 2003 - 19:14:15 GMT
Reed
> > 2) Where was the baseball meme when no one was playing baseball?
Chris:
> In the purely environmental version of (1), the memeset may have
> disappeared completely, then a second different one comes along later
> on, selected for by the environment to be the same but while actually
> being completely separate from it (convergent evolution).
Possible. Are you saying that every performance creates a selection
environment that stimulates the evolution of a complementary performance?
That sounds plausible.
For instance, every time an transcription enzyme performs a polymerization
the DNA-enzyme it is creating an environment that selects for the
complementary strand over any other.
> Else it was just there, frozen. Preserved in the record of the
> performance of the rules (i.e. the rule book).
So, are you saying that the memes are in the book, or not?
Best,
Reed
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